Brummet's Conscious Blog

-- Kudos --  Kudos to the Toyota Motor Corporation who created the Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050 plan – to reduce negative impacts of today’s motorized vehicles and better yet, to increase the positive impact they can have.  The aim is to cut C02 by 90% and recyclability will be increased to 100% by 2050.  The company plans to increase renewable energy, water and hydrogen reduction policies.  You may have heard of the company’s environmental programs, however I think you’ll hear more about them in the future since the company is expanding projects that focus on nature conservation. Award-winning authors Dave & Lillian Brummet: Visit us on:  Twitter FaceBook LinkedIn Google http://BrummetMedia.ca (new site, under maintenance)

Graphics on Vehicles  * Today's article was written by Urvi Tandon, who invites you to visit these links for more information re: vehicle signage or vehicle graphics. Ever wondered of how you can use your car for the purpose of marketing?  Vehicle graphics is the latest trend that can be used effectively to market and also promote your business. This process can easily transform your ordinary vehicle into a very cost- effective tool in order to raise the visibility of your business. It doesn't matter whether your business has a single car or a dozen of vans, by using the custom vehicle graphics, you can easily wrap up your car with all the graphics related to your business or organization and let the public know about it. In simple terms, you can make the vehicle graphics a part of your overall plan of visual communication and reach a lot of customers in a very short span of time. Different types of vehicle graphics: Fl...

 -- Quote of the Day -- "To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle."  ~ Lisa Alther  -- Positive Eco-News -- Kudos to Balfour Towing & Salvage & owner Eric Etelamaki  - a Kootenay towing company (BC, Canada) - that has stockpiled over 300 vehicles and is now processing them for recycling. On his own, he researched and came up with a fluid extraction system and crushing system – incorporating the SEDA fluid evacuation technology – using powerful pumps and barrels for proper storage of fluids like antifreeze and oil, removing and separating mercury switches, batteries, tires and more …which are then picked up by recycling companies. The last process is the crushing system that compacts the vehicle shells and then they are shipped to metal recyclers.  This inspiring example of a company going above and beyond, despite isolated location limitati...

 -- Quote of the Day -- "Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear - but around you in awareness." ~ Ross Hersey -- Positive Eco-News -- We hear a lot of bad news about the vehicle industry - but there are a lot of in-house changes going on in vehicle manufacture operations to celebrate.  While there are likely many other vehicle manufacturers offering green options and green in-house activities, I'd like to highlight one that I read recently about in the Recycling Product Newsletter that a Volvo Truck can have as much as 1/3 of it’s weight in recycled metals. Some of the best and usable parts are sold, others are separated in bins for iron, aluminum, plastics, copper, brass and the like. They say that not one bolt or piece of wire, not one scrap of a used truck goes to the landfill when it hits their recycling centers. In doing so they’ve been able to refine the manufacturing of new trucks to eliminate time or labor issues involved in ...

-- Prize Draw -- Congratulations to Virginia - last week's prize winner - who won a copy of Rick Niece's memoir novel: The Side-Yard Superhero This next prize draw is for June 22 - July 5. Deadline July 5, 12 noon (pacific). Prizes to be won: Rick Glaze's novel: Middle Fork & Dawn Menge's children's book: Queen Vernita's Visitors (book one of a series) To enter in the random draw for these prizes simply email me with the word "prize" in the subject line at: ldbrummet@yahoo.com... it is that easy! -- Vehicle Emissions -- All over the world people are experiencing air quality changes due to vehicle emissions. Particularly in the peak of summer, cities have worsening air quality to the point where it has become “normal” to hear air quality warnings. In Pakistan, vehicle emissions are responsible for nearly 90% of their air pollution. That is no wonder when you consider that 500 mature trees are needed to combat the emissions for every 20,000 km drive...